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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, ff 175r-175v.
Title:: Boethius, De institutione musica, extract.
Scope & Content:: An extract from Boethius, De institutione musica. Decoration: Initials and parapha in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 1 folio; f. 176 is a modern paper flyleaf.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 647, ff 1r-2r
Title:: Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville with two short prayers
Scope & Content:: Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville with two short prayers.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 820 and c. 1000
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 647, ff 2v-17v
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, with extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica
Scope & Content:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, illustrated with 22 constellation figures containing extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 820-840
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 647, ff 17v-20r
Title:: Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, books 8 and 6 (known as The Seven-Book Computus), also in the margins of ff. 16r-16v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1000
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 1-184
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r–57v: Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. 339), Bishop of Caesarea, Chronici Canones (Chronological Canons), translated by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), with his prologue; ending ‘Huc usque historiam scribit eusebius pamphili martiris contubermalis [sic]; cui nos ista subiecimus’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 185-191
Title:: Lists of ecclesiastical provinces, dioceses, cities, churches and offices
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 185r–191v: Lists of ecclesiastical provinces, dioceses and their cities, the churches of Rome, offices for cardinals, cardinal deacons, (arch)bishops, and patriarchs. Decoration: Numerous initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. 1 small initial in red with violet pen-flourish...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 192-196
Title:: Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 192r–193v: Chronicle from Creation to 1384. ff. 193v–194r: Series of kings of England from Alfred to Richard II, continued up to Edward VI by a different hand, writing in Middle English (lower margin of f. 194r). f. 194v: Names of the kings of Britain and of the Anglo-Saxons in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 736/1
Title:: Collection of legal tracts. Vol. 1 of 2
Scope & Content:: f. 1: Rough contents note: ‘Miscellanies of Courts of the Court of Chancery. Of the Court of Wards. Of Ecclesiastical Matters by Burde. Of the Court of Starchamber Two Treatises whereof one twice’. ff. 2-257: Sir Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chauncerye. Interleaved, with notes inscribed on the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 736/2
Title:: Collection of legal tracts. Vol. 2 of 2
Scope & Content:: ff. 400-670: Treatise on the Star Chamber. Header (f. 400): ‘A Treatise of the High Courte of Star-Chamber; devided into three general Partes; & everie Parte devided into certaine severall Consideracions’. Followed by titles of the parts. Table of contents, ff. 401-402. ff. 671-711: Treati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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